November 2008

. . . put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.

Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Nonfiction — Writing
Year:2000

At some point in [...]

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The Black Gate website just underwent an upgrade, becoming better looking and more functional.  But Black Gate didn’t stop there, just this week launching a new blog that will deliver daily content. The new BlackGate.com blog team is comprised of many of the magazines most talented contributors — names regular BG readers are sure to [...]

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Jordan Lapp, co-editor of one of my favorite markets Every Day Fiction, just rebooted his fallow blog with a post that got some people talking. Jordan has recently won the top spot in one of the quarterly rounds of The Writers of the Future Contest, so he’s come back to blogging now that he has [...]

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Jason Waltz has just announced the release of the second edition of Return of the Sword over on his blog, and at the Rogue Blades Entertainment site. As most of you know, Return of the Sword, an anthology of heroic and edgy fantasy adventure fiction featuring the likes of James Enge, E.E. Knight, Michael Ehart, [...]

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“Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels?”

Title: Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Genre: Science Fiction - Cyberpunk/Thriller
Year: 2002

Calling something cyberpunk-noir is almost a tautology, after all it is the hard and clipped cadences of the Hammett-Chandler school that [...]

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